Travel Blogs from San Cristobal de las Casas

... Another memorable experience we had here was seeing how the Mayan Tzotzil and Tzeltal indigenous communities live today. Still a very traditional and superstitious people, we witnessed chickens being sacrificed to the gods and performances of demon expulsions in the community church (unfortunately we weren't able to take photos of these sacred acts). Though we felt like we could stay in San Cristobal for months, after almost two weeks we figured we should explore deeper into the ...

... br> After about an hour there, I'd seen all the random plants and flowers I could want to see, so I set off back towards town. On the way, I stopped off at one last museum, the Mayan Medicine museum. This one had a more put-together display showing the different traditional techniques, herbs and plants that the Mayan indigenous people use instead of modern medicine. They also offered a window into daily life -- since I missed yesterday's tours to the ...

San Cristobal de la Casas We had a very long 6 hour journey through the mountains from Palenque to San Cristobal de la Casas. The distance was actually pretty short but it was so zigzaggy it took forever. You couldn't do much either because reading would make you throw up. So we played a few games including one of my Christmas University Challenge quizzes (every year I do a quiz for my family at Christmas time, which normally ends in tears!). Our Canadian tour leader didn't quite get ...

Arrived in San Cristobal at 7am - urghhhhh, sleeping pills would have been a good idea...Taxi ride to our hotel, cross fingers our room is ready! Bad luck, me and Greek family have to share a room till our room is ready. Super fast shower (4 in a room was tight!) and then off to a nice brekkie place. Ernesto then took us to the tour agency to sort out our activities for the next day - no brainer Sumidero canyon! Ernesto took us to a small town 10km from San ...

... These are the real hardcore travellers, many hitch hiking their way through the country trying to make ends meat as they go along. There are plenty of hippies here! We met one guy who was hitching from Alaska as far south as he could go and he'd had some pretty interesting experiences so far. One particular Frenchman looked the splitting image of Jack Sparrow, long hair, outrageous pirate type clothing on. My initial thoughts when I first saw him were again 'Check ...